Five people, including a one-year-old girl and a four-year-old girl, were injured Friday evening when a car turned into the path of a stopped vehicle at U.S. 50 and Rissler Road in Pettis County and struck it head-on. Both vehicles were totaled in the crash, which happened around 6:43 p.m., and the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Troop A responded to the scene.
According to ABC17 News, the crash details came from a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. A 2018 Ford Focus, driven by a 41-year-old Kansas City woman, was eastbound and stopped at the intersection when a northbound 2009 Chevrolet Malibu, driven by a 22-year-old Sedalia woman, turned left directly into its path, according to KRCG. The Malibu struck the Focus head-on.
The Ford driver suffered only minor injuries and was taken to a hospital, per the same KRCG account. The Malibu driver was not as fortunate — she and a 25-year-old male passenger, also from Sedalia, suffered serious injuries, the station reported.
Two Young Children Among the Injured
The Malibu was also carrying two young children, a one-year-old girl and a four-year-old girl, who each sustained minor injuries, according to KOMU. The two girls were taken to Bothwell Regional Health Center alongside the injured male passenger, while the Malibu's driver was transported to University Hospital in Columbia for treatment.
It remains unknown whether the Sedalia woman driving the Malibu was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, KOMU's report states, though everyone else involved in the collision reportedly had their seat belts on. KSIS Radio reported that Pettis County deputies assisted the Highway Patrol at the scene, and that both totaled vehicles were towed away afterward.
Not the First Wreck at This Intersection
The stretch of U.S. 50 at Rissler Road just east of Sedalia has seen trouble before. A separate three-vehicle accident at the same intersection injured three people around 5 p.m. on a prior Friday, according to KSIS Radio. Years earlier, an 84-year-old Green Ridge man, Earl S. Paxton, suffered serious injuries in a wreck at that same crossing and was taken to University Hospital, where he later died.
No further updates on the conditions of those hospitalized from Friday's crash were available at the time of reporting.
